具体描述
The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (History of Imperial China)
Author: Timothy Brook
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press; Reprint edition (5 Mar. 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674072537
ISBN-13: 978-0674072534
Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 16 x 2.2 cm
Book Des cription
The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire--a millennium and a half in the making--was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future. Four centuries later, another wave of steppe invaders would replace the Ming dynasty with yet another foreign occupation. "The Troubled Empire" explores what happened to China between these two dramatic invasions.
If anything defined the complex dynamics of this period, it was changes in the weather. Asia, like Europe, experienced a Little Ice Age, and as temperatures fell in the thirteenth century, Kublai Khan moved south into China. His Yuan dynasty collapsed in less than a century, but Mongol values lived on in Ming institutions. A second blast of cold in the 1630s, combined with drought, was more than the dynasty could stand, and the Ming fell to Manchu invaders.
Against this background--the first coherent ecological history of China in this period--Timothy Brook explores the growth of autocracy, social complexity, and commercialization, paying special attention to China's incorporation into the larger South China Sea economy. These changes not only shaped what China would become but contributed to the formation of the early modern world.
《哈佛中国史》六卷本丛书，由国际汉学家卜正民教授领衔主编，集结罗威廉、陆威仪和迪特.库恩三位知名汉学家，萃集半个世纪以来西方的中国史研究成果，以全球史视野、多学科学识颠覆传统中国史叙述模式，倾十年之功写就，是继《剑桥中国史》之后能代表西方半个世纪以来中国史研究全新成果和水准的多卷本中国通史。
《哈佛中国史》丛书站在风起云涌的21世纪，从全球史角度重写“世界中国史”，引导世界重新思考当下中国。丛书上自公元前221年秦朝一统天下，下至20世纪初清朝终结，分为六个帝国时代——秦汉古典时代、南北朝大分裂、世界性帝国唐朝、宋朝的社会转型、气候变迁影响下元明帝国的兴衰，以及成就斐然的大清王朝，进而串起2000年中华文明跌宕起伏的荣辱命运。
《哈佛中国史》丛书专为普通读者而作，语言生动活泼，文风简明精悍，结构精致合理，极富故事性和启发性，是一套给大众读者的专业、简洁、清晰、独特的全新中国通史。
《哈佛中国史》丛书出版后获得很多赞誉，被称为“多卷本中国史的黄金标准”，堪称哈佛大学出版社的典范之作，已被芝加哥大学、康奈尔大学、不列颠哥伦比亚大学、香港科技大学、香港城市大学等数十所世界知名大学指定为中国史课程教材。
About the Author
Timothy Brookis Professor of History at the University of British Columbia.
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